| Andreas Klemm on Fri, 5 Jan 2001 17:15:41 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: apsfilter |
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 04:58:50AM -0500, jef moskot wrote: > > > Now, while printing a ascii file (i'm testing with /etc/passwd) using > > > the auto1 printer i get no output at all while printing the same file > > > with the raw one i see the light blinking but it doesn't eject the paper > > > after printing. > > Not sure if it's the same issue, but I had this problem a while ago and it > turned out that I was using an old version of a2ps. > > I got new one and it worked fine. > > The thing that killed me was that 4.3 is OLDER than 4.13. So it's "four > point thirteen", not "four point one three". Yes, its really irritating, and I know a user who lost lots of hours with this as he said... The bad things was, that it was his own fault, because he didn't follow the FreeBSD port dependencies ... Don't know _how_ he made it .. I assume he simply kicked off the newer and installed the older a2ps 4.3 ... Nowthing worked, I already was giving support and then *I* was kind of pissed of, since I started to help immediately, but got nothing than grief ... The only thing where the user was right was, that the apsfilter port was not prefix clean ... But Michael already did a workaround, which will be posted soon, we are only discussing some things, if something like configure would be the best way to go (I don't mean autoconf bloat, but something which does basically the same). BTW, I also think he has the old a2ps installed and therefore printing doesn't work ... Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm Powered by FreeBSD SMP Songs from our band >>64Bits<<............http://www.apsfilter.org/64bits.html My homepage................................ http://people.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas Please note: Apsfilter got a NEW HOME................http://www.apsfilter.org/